WE SUP WITH THE DEVIL the dock. And I had a desperate feeling that nothing the police could do would ever bring this about. I think I may be forgiven—the crime was a dirty crime. War had been made upon women from first to last. The men of the party had practically been ignored, but Daphne, Adele and Jill had been insulted and robbed. Compared with theirs, our losses were scarcely worth setting down. The attack had been made upon them—for what they had. They had been fooled: they had been drugged: they had been robbed: and the five grown men who should have been their protectors had been of no more use than a pack of drunken servants that prefer their own amusement to the common duty they owe. " Jonah," said I, " I'm with you, but what can wedo ? For only one thing, we were bound to call in the police : and when the police came in, the matter went out of our hands/' " Don't you believe it/' said Jonah, " The policeTl go their own way: if we like to go ours, there's no reason why we should collide/' He flung himself into a chair and crossed his legs. "You see, the point is this. For a month or six weeks the Plazas won't try to leave France. If they tried to leave France, they'd be taken—the nets are spread. And they're damned fine nets—that's where the French police excel. Where they fail is that the bird must go to the net. In England it's different: but there the net isn't sc fine. You can't have it every way." " You seem to know a lot about it," said Berry. "Hearsay," said Jonah shortly. "What do you think?" " I don't," said my brother-in-law. " I face tfaie facts instead, What if the Plazas are to 25